These pattern quotes will inspire you. Pattern, a form or model proposed for imitation or a repeated decorative design.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging pattern quotes, pattern sayings, and pattern proverbs.
Best Pattern Quotes
- “To understand is to perceive patterns.” ~ Isaiah Berlin
- “Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” ~ Junichiro Tanizaki
- “What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.” ~ Sai Baba
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“Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” ~ Edward de Bono , Break pattern quotes
- “The creative mind doesn’t have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.” ~ Arthur Fry
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“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” ~ Tuli Kupferberg
- “Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- “Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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“The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.” ~ Arne Glimcher
- “Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it’s not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.” ~ Susan Howatch
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“Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.” ~ Al Capp
- “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
- “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.” ~ Seneca the Younger
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“I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.” ~ Kate DiCamillo
- “Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?” ~ Margot Fonteyn
- “A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.” ~ Doris Lessing
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“What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.” ~ Francis Marion
- “I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.” ~ Maynard James Keenan
- “The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.” ~ Rudolf Arnheim
- “The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered” ~ Roy Jenkins
- “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher , Sleeping pattern quotes
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“Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.” ~ Ronald Graham
- “As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
- “A successful person isn’t necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.” ~ Ray Kurzweil
- “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
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“Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.” ~ Constantin Brancusi
- “Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.” ~ Margaret Mead
- “Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.” ~ G. H. Hardy
- “If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one’s desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?” ~ Xunzi
- “I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn’t see any.” ~ Merton Miller
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“Art is pattern informed by sensibility.” ~ Herbert Read
- “I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.” ~ Anne Stevenson
- “In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors’.” ~ Emanuel Celler
- “I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.” ~ Anais Nin
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“The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole
- “Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.” ~ Henry W. Kendall
- “I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.” ~ Marc Bolan
- “Life is a process of working out what’s not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.” ~ Siobhan Fahey
- “The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.” ~ Henry James
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“The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.” ~ Robert Creeley
- “Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You’ll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.” ~ Wilferd Peterson
- “A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.” ~ Maurice Strong
- “The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others” ~ Morton Feldman
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“Our character is basically a composite of our habits.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.” ~ Robert Graves , Same pattern quotes
- “Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I’m optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.” ~ Jared Diamond
- “For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.” ~ Ann Druyan
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“Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.” ~ Ronald Graham
- “I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.” ~ J. Michael Straczynski
- “I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.” ~ Will Smith
- “The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.” ~ Brock Yates
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“Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!” ~ Wendy O. Williams
- “In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.” ~ Peter Garrett
- “Or certainly I would need time – which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film – to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.” ~ Danny Elfman
- “By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don’t want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.” ~ Glenn Miller
- “I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.” ~ Josiah Royce
